When you listen with empathy to another person, you give that person psychological air.

We may find it convenient to live with the illusion that circumstances or other people are responsible for the quality of our lives, but the reality is that we are responsible-response-able-for our choices.

You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage—pleasantly, smilingly, nonapologetically, to say “no” to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger “yes” burning inside. The enemy of the “best” is often the “good.

Seek to understand before you seek to be understood.

Success comes from the ability to view each arising problem as an opportunity for self improvement.

Remember that our reactions are a product of our perceptions, and our perceptions are a result of what is at the center of our life.

We judge ourselves by our intentions. And others by their actions.